Beta items! Mystery shell, full set of 6 magic spells and magic arrows, silver bracelet, note-shaped ocarina stones, and other fun changes.
I think it\u2019s the reed whistle thing that was used to call Epona pic.twitter.com/2c4zpFoPZh
— part6never (@justaguywhodraw) January 19, 2021
(As predicted: https://t.co/lzZ9vIdRhl)
In fact, we know that Zelda used to give you the light medallion when you meet her: https://t.co/K518iSTKeQ
Oh, actually, the damage charts contain entries for four out of six magic spells - only Forest/Wind (Farore's Wind) and Spirit/Soul (Nayru's Love) are missing.
— MrCheeze \U0001f192\U0001f195 (@MrCheeze_) July 28, 2020
Seems that the other four were all meant to be offensive spells, but they cut things down and kept only Din's Fire. pic.twitter.com/G2lr5J22x7
But, based on internal filenames (Magic_Dark) and the medallion design, I believe it had the visual effect of Nayru's Love (albeit maybe not in blue).
This is the same effect as a spell in Zelda II, but way more complicated to implement in a 3D game. I doubt they got very far with implementing it.
(By the way, again going by internal names, the Soul medallion SFX was repurposed for Nayru's Love. So that spell was created from the pieces of multiple other cut ones.)
Heart pieces come in groups of 8 instead of 4.
Apparently in OoT one was a nickname for the other.
(Then, oddly, BotW reused the name as an entirely different, icy mountain. I guess things like that happen in real life too.)
I don't think you had any ocarina as child at this point in development, so I guess her Letter was used as a key for more guards?
This is so fascinating. It seems to be bits of the story before it was rewritten. Zelda didn't know how to enter the ToT and had to look it up in the library while Link found the 2 stones. Playing the prelude of light with the stones would let you enter. Cont...
— Thrix (@TRex_Ramblings) January 19, 2021
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“What’s end-game here?”
“What does success look like in a world where you pick that path?”
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